In the August of their twelfth year, Will Colven and Gaby Rice were hunted by invisible hounds. Under the care of Will’s family, they fled from town to town, from motel to motel, unable to rest, unable to seek help. Their separation ended the hunt, but not the questions. Who was after them? What did they want? What other kinds . . .
Peter Normal leaves California and moves into his grandfather’s house with his mother and sister. Upon arriving he discovers that his grandfather’s house looks like something out of a horror movie, that his grandfather forbids him to go into the garden, and that the neighbor boy is a bit off the wall. He also discovers that the undead thing . . .
It started as a simple experiment: How would two characters survive being homeless in the Sims 3? This is their story. Alice is a young woman struggling to cope with homelessness and an abusive father. Kev barely knows he has a daughter and yearns for love he can’t reciprocate. . . .
Hard times and poverty in rural Norway, early 1800’s. Based loosely on some poor folks who had the misfortune to be my ancestors. One of them stole some potatoes and other food to feed her family of seven. For this she received 8 months in prison, where my great-grandfather was born. These are the facts. The rest, as they say, . . .
At the House of Cats, those felines who are cursed to become humans when the moon enters Leo find a safe haven between two worlds. But the House has fallen into disrepair; the cat who should be leading them has run away. She dreams of being a chef, of living as a human all the time (or at least six . . .
What do you do when you’re a single parent who can’t make ends meet and the solution is staring you in the face . . . a solution you’d rather not take, but a solution nonetheless? You drop your pride and become a part of The Pride. . . .
When Captain Cait Molyneux goes to pick up her next commission, she rescues a boy that may have been kidnapped, discovers a bizarre map that may be a hoax, and may be heading towards the payoff that could save her career. She just has to make it past tropical storms, sea monsters, pirates, family, and a shortage of tea first . . . . . .
I went on the trip unwillingly. It was supposed to be exciting . . . the latest and greatest in space travel. But I had everything I wanted and was bored of it all. My parents came too, but I ignored them. I couldn’t ignore it when the ship crash landed on a primitive planet. Without my parents, or anyway to get off. . . .
Every little community has a secret or two, some darker than others. The rural town of Clockwork is no different and when children start being snatched in the night, everyone knows that it’s only a matter of time before those secrets are revealed. Things only get worse when a group of bounty hunters turn up in town, offering to . . .
You find yourself in a new city, and this place isn’t like the old country town from back home. . . . This place that you’ve found yourself in has the potential to be the start of something new. As you plane fly over California, you notice the scenery and melt in this place called San Diego, not knowing what’s ahead . . . . . . .
No Forwarding Address is quite a different novel, a true coming-of-age story.
Edward, son of rich upper-class parents, ends up shipwrecked on a backwater planet reminiscent of Earth in the Middle Ages. He is taken in by a peasant family and must learn to adapt to a new culture, religion, and [more . . .]
Okay so I’m probably a bit old to be as infatuated with this story as I am, but I just can’t help it. Sure there’s a certain amount of suspension of disbelief required for adults, but it’s exactly the sort of thing I would have loved as a kid. A 10 year old playing detective for the supernatural and saving [more . . .]